ESSENTIAL well written Great Analytical Philosophical Works

A Listmania! list by Prof Harvey Crichton (Gloucester, Oxford, London, England)
 
The Republic (Penguin Classics)
1.  The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
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  "The MAIN starting point and contempary thinking point even today and what style"
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Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics)
2.  Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics) by Rene Descartes
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  "The starting point of Modern Philosophy and another good introduction"
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The Ethics of Aristotle (Classics)
3.  The Ethics of Aristotle (Classics) by Aristotle
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  "Another beatifully inspiring Greek Classic and foundation of the West"
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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts)
4.  An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume
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  "British Empiricism and the Age of Reason. Alot of good sense"
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Essays and Aphorisms (Classics)
5.  Essays and Aphorisms (Classics) by Arthur Schopenhauer
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  "Death of reason. All is will. Depressing but important view"
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Classics)
6.  Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Classics) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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  "Important again. Age of Ideaology and New thinking. Radical really. God is Dead.. and some powerful possibilities"
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Critique of Pure Reason (Dover Philosophical Classics)
7.  Critique of Pure Reason (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Immanuel Kant
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  "Hard read. But this is truly the foundation of Western Philosophy this work. Do you good to read it! Hardest book here really. But brilliant."
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Language, Truth and Logic (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  Language, Truth and Logic (Penguin Modern Classics) by A.J. Ayer
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  "A 20th Classic. Logical Positivism A very claryfying work as to what it is."
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The Problems of Philosophy (OPUS)
9.  The Problems of Philosophy (OPUS) by Bertrand Russell
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  "A very good classic 20th text recommended by Profs as to what Philosophy is all about with real thinking in it!! By a great reasoner."
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Philosophical Investigations: The German Text with a Revised English Translation: German Text, with a Revised English Translation
10.  Philosophical Investigations: The German Text with a Revised English Translation: German Text, with a Revised English Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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  "Probably the most influential text of the 20th C. Massive really"
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
11.  Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
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  "A great outline of Philosophy today overlapping into the 21st C READ THESE FIRST! Then go Post Modern and Continental is my advice!! Derrida and Baudrillaird, Deleuze, Sartre and Heidegger can wait"
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Continuum Impacts No. 21)
12.  A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Continuum Impacts No. 21) by Gilles Deleuze
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  "Here`s the beginning of some radical contemporary texts.. but you will do well to read the others first. Trust me."
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The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Routledge Classics)
13.  The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault
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  "Should put a few things in context and make you think"
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Being and Time
14.  Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
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  "Certainly make you think if you get into this. Might be pointless and definately a very hard book relatively. But one of the greats of 20th C thinking in a way. Not as useful as Wittgenstein."
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Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books)
15.  Phenomenology of Spirit (Galaxy Books) by G. W. F. Hegel
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  "A Classic from a great and a very influential work if less so now. Part of the story."
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Philosophical Works of Leibnitz (1908)
16.  Philosophical Works of Leibnitz (1908) by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibnitz
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  "He`s read less and less . But WHAT a mind. great stuff really."
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Ethics (Penguin Classics)
17.  Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Benedict Spinoza
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  "A Brilliant elegant clessical attempt. Quite brilliant really."
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The Enneads (Classics)
18.  The Enneads (Classics) by Plotinus
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  "Neo-Platonism for St.Aquinus to write for the Church. St.Aquinus himself quite brilliant also."
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The Varieties of Religious Experience (Penguin Classics)
19.  The Varieties of Religious Experience (Penguin Classics) by William James
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  "A good pragmatist sensible American view of common sense. James is a wonderful influence on 20th C Philosophy really"
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An Introduction to Philosophical Logic
20.  An Introduction to Philosophical Logic by Anthony C. Grayling
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  "Useful work. NOT a classic CLASSIC text. But useful like Russell`s work in what Philosophy really IS all round and how it is connected to logic."
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Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics)
21.  Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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  "A Guess the 20th C would not be complete without this and existentialism. You may as read Lacan and Freud as well. Don`t forget Jung either."
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The Parallax View (Short Circuits)
22.  The Parallax View (Short Circuits) by Slavoj Zizek
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  "Whether you agree or not. A contempory who makes you think and wants you to think. I like him for this reason alone and his 21st view of culture."
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The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics)
23.  The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics) by Ancius Boethius
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  "The classic ideal of a philosophical nature, Medieval thought at it`s best"
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The Metaphysics (Penguin Classics)
24.  The Metaphysics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle
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  "The other great work by Aristotle and essential reading really from Greece."
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The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics)
25.  The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Plato
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  "A great literary almost light read. The death of Socrates and romantic really. Ancient Athens in all it`s glory and ideals of a philosopher"
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Last updated: 08/03/2007
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